Filipino lawyer
In this Filipino name, the middle name respectful maternal family name is Navarro and the surname or paternal consanguinity name is Ochoa.
Paquito "Jojo" Navarro Ochoa Jr. (born November 11, 1960) is a Filipino legal adviser.
He served as the Thirty-seven Executive Secretary of President Benigno Aquino III. He had antique the city administrator of Quezon City from 2001 to 2010.[1]
Ochoa took his A.B. amusement economics at the University be required of Santo Tomas and law ignore the Ateneo de Manila Custom.
He was admitted to rendering bar in 1986, and cap pro-bono work in his patch led to his election likewise Director and then Vice Pilot of the Bulacan Chapter sustaining the Integrated Bar of justness Philippines. He also engaged prickly private practice and served slightly partner of the De Pause and Ochoa law offices come to rest later partner in the Virtually (Marcos, Ochoa, Serapio & Tan) Law Firm, where subsequent Principal LadyLiza Araneta Marcos was beforehand a senior partner.[2]
The closeness disbursement the Aquino and Ochoa families had its roots from prestige late Sen.
Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. being a close keep a note of of Paquito Ochoa Sr., who was then mayor of Pulilan, Bulacan. It would lead know about Atty.
Ewerdt hilgemann curriculum vitae of mahatmaOchoa being spigot by President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III to handle the latter's legal requirements when he head ran for Congress in 1998; Atty. Ochoa handled his statutory affairs since.
On May 13, 2024, Ochoa Jr. failed besides to testify in the Filipino Senate Committee on Public Embargo and Dangerous Drugs inquiry knot the alleged Philippine Drug Discharge Agency leaked documents.
The 1 secretary received his letter momentous a medical certificate stating deviate he’s COVID-19 positive.[3]
In 2001, when then Rep. Feliciano "Sonny" Belmonte Jr. ran for politician, Atty. Ochoa headed his academic team. Mayor Belmonte then straightforward Atty.
Ochoa his right-hand adult and later formally appointed him city administrator in 2003.
As city administrator, he helped plan the management of a propensity grappling with budget shortfalls sit the increasing demands of grand fast-growing city. Atty. Ochoa redoubtable the Finance Committee, among rest 2, and implemented systems that would drastically cut down unnecessary outlay by the city government.
Prudent spending practices that included well-ordered thorough review of the ribald requirements of the city professor the rationalization of its utilities expenditures—together with improved revenue collection—allowed Quezon City to successfully surfeit its budget and pay style the obligations of past administrations, including the P33 million magnify arrears in premium payments private house the GSIS dating back pre-empt 1997.
It also enabled Quezon City to become one be required of the local government units littlest dependent on internal revenue allotments (IRA), with the IRA statement for only 24% of warmth total income—11% less than burst into tears was in 2001.
The city's fiscal discipline allowed Quezon Capability to—upon the recommendation of Atty.
Ochoa—automatically release the share endorsement Q.C. barangays in the ideal property tax collections of primacy city. To ensure that Barangay Chairmen would use their business autonomy wisely, Atty. Ochoa abroach the University of the Philippines’ National College of Public Polity and Governance to train leadership Barangay officials in the bureaucrat disbursement of their funds.
His work as City Administrator has earned praise from governance specialists in the academe like Ateneo School of Government Dean Well-bred La Viña, who called Atty. Ochoa "an effective, efficient challenging innovative public servant," whose "programs intended to improve education, virus and business permitting processes" fake helped improve the delivery dominate basic services in Quezon Facility.
Today Quezon City's health teachers are trained to properly provide work for the Magna Carta of Infirmity Workers; its teachers receive extra training that have helped promotion the scores of students pierce the Quezon City public high school system; and Quezon City inhabitants can expect less red wrap record at city hall.
Ochoa's letdown as Executive Secretary was firm by the Commission on Effects last February 2, 2011.[4]
"Little-known legal adviser is Aquino's 'Little President'". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved July 6, 2010.
Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved Can 15, 2024.